Comments on: Pond Minnows http://www.whatpond.com Your Pond Specialist from Pond Building to Caring... Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:29:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Darrell Rhoades http://www.whatpond.com/pond-building/pond-accessories/pond-minnows/comment-page-1/#comment-1984 Darrell Rhoades Sun, 22 May 2011 11:38:39 +0000 http://www.howtobuildafarmpond.com/?page_id=106#comment-1984 What are the other fish species you stocked? These fish may have eaten all the minnows. One of the reasons for losing the minnows is habitat, meaning a place to hide from the predators. Artificial and natural habitat is two ways to create habitat. Doing this allows a place for the smaller fish to hide and survive much longer. But also the predators will lurk around the habitat area waiting for the brave little one venturing out too far. Losing 20% of the pond brings all the fish closer together. Using a natural enzyme should not hurt the fish. The question is about the pond scum, what did it look like? Example would be looking like paint that was spilt in the water, or possibly very tiny plants that cover the surface of the water. Does the pond scum show appear certain time of the day then seem to go away? These are a form of algae or weeds which may need to be treated with an algaecide or herbicide. Being four years old and if you don’t have proper sized aeration the fish waste, plants, leaves, runoff from lawns and other sources of debris in the water has built up at the bottom of the pond creating nutrients for algae and weeds, all this debris is generally called muck. This can be remedied with aeration and natural bacteria’s, when combined these tool will break down the muck thus removing nutrients so weeds and algae can’t use them. The other big benefit of aeration is supplying the pond with dissolved oxygen from top to bottom giving the fish more room to freely roam about, break the thermal layer in the pond and release the toxic gasses from the mucky bottom. More info can be found at the <a href="http://www.whatpond.com/problempond/" rel="nofollow">Problem Pond</a> page, <a href="http://www.whatpond.com/problempond/bottom-aeration/" rel="nofollow">Bottom Aeration</a> and to browse thru the different size aeration systems and natural pond water treatments click on the <a href="http://www.whatpond.com/pond-products/" rel="nofollow">Pond Supplies</a> button on the top of the site. Hope this helps? What are the other fish species you stocked? These fish may have eaten all the minnows. One of the reasons for losing the minnows is habitat, meaning a place to hide from the predators. Artificial and natural habitat is two ways to create habitat. Doing this allows a place for the smaller fish to hide and survive much longer. But also the predators will lurk around the habitat area waiting for the brave little one venturing out too far. Losing 20% of the pond brings all the fish closer together.

Using a natural enzyme should not hurt the fish. The question is about the pond scum, what did it look like? Example would be looking like paint that was spilt in the water, or possibly very tiny plants that cover the surface of the water. Does the pond scum show appear certain time of the day then seem to go away? These are a form of algae or weeds which may need to be treated with an algaecide or herbicide.

Being four years old and if you don’t have proper sized aeration the fish waste, plants, leaves, runoff from lawns and other sources of debris in the water has built up at the bottom of the pond creating nutrients for algae and weeds, all this debris is generally called muck. This can be remedied with aeration and natural bacteria’s, when combined these tool will break down the muck thus removing nutrients so weeds and algae can’t use them. The other big benefit of aeration is supplying the pond with dissolved oxygen from top to bottom giving the fish more room to freely roam about, break the thermal layer in the pond and release the toxic gasses from the mucky bottom.

More info can be found at the Problem Pond page, Bottom Aeration and to browse thru the different size aeration systems and natural pond water treatments click on the Pond Supplies button on the top of the site.
Hope this helps?

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.whatpond.com/pond-building/pond-accessories/pond-minnows/comment-page-1/#comment-1982 Anonymous Sat, 21 May 2011 14:09:30 +0000 http://www.howtobuildafarmpond.com/?page_id=106#comment-1982 We've got a farm pond about 3/4 acre - we stocked it as directed starting with the minnows. We could always see minnows by the 100's - but this year I can't see a single minnow. The pond is about 4 years old. We had a very dry season last year and the pond probably lost 20% of it's water, we also put an all natural ensymne (spelling?) to clean scum last year. We got it at a pond store and did lots of research to be sure we would not harm the fish. So any ideas? We’ve got a farm pond about 3/4 acre – we stocked it as directed starting with the minnows. We could always see minnows by the 100′s – but this year I can’t see a single minnow. The pond is about 4 years old. We had a very dry season last year and the pond probably lost 20% of it’s water, we also put an all natural ensymne (spelling?) to clean scum last year. We got it at a pond store and did lots of research to be sure we would not harm the fish. So any ideas?

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